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单词 hostility
释义 hos·til·i·ty
\häˈstiləd.ē, -ətē, -i sometimes hȯˈ-\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French hostilité, from Late Latin hostilitat-, hostilitas, from Latin hostilis + -itat-, -itas -ity
1.
 a. : a hostile or antagonistic state
  < the civilized south and the barbarous north stood in perpetual hostility — Kemp Malone >
 b.
  (1) : hostile action
   < the Spanish expedition encountered hostility … and was forced to flee — R.W.Murray >
  (2) hostilities plural : overt acts of warfare : war
   < the outbreak of hostilities >
2. : antagonism, opposition, or resistance in thought or principle : animosity
 < there was tension, there was hostility and envy in the air — Theodor Reik >
 < hostility to annexation has different grounds in different places — B.K.Sandwell >
Synonyms: see enmity
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